Assura pays back 30 million Swiss francs to customers

The health insurers, Assura has earned in the year 2018, again and again, and for the first time customers to be a part of. To this end, the Vaud group returned to their account funds in the amount of 30 million Swiss francs.

In the mandatory basic insurance of Assura are a total insured well over a million customers. By the end of the year, about half of them get a refund in the amount of 40 to 100 Swiss francs per Insured person, promised the group on Thursday in Lausanne, in front of the media. The payments varies from Canton to Canton high.

Every third person in Western Switzerland, in the case of Assura

For the past year Assura has, in spite of the provision is still a net profit in the amount of 61.9 million Swiss francs. In the year 2017, the profit was higher with almost 90 million higher. At the time, the resolution of beneficiary status in connection with a from the point of view of the group's successful legal case, the result of 42 million.

The premium income has increased the third-largest health insurance Fund in Switzerland to 12 per cent, to 3.8 billion Swiss francs. The number of the Insured climbed for the first time in history, more than a million. Assura is strongly anchored in Western Switzerland. Since about every third inhabitant was assured with her, it was said.

Even after the payment of the bonus to your customers, the solvency ratio in the basic insurance, now as before, above the threshold of 150 percent. The measure shows whether an insurer has enough to put up capital to cover the insurance benefits set aside. (Dec/sda)

Created: 16.05.2019, at 14:05